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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Finding Food and Other Localized Sources
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The Coevolution of Signal and Sense
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Visual Adaptations to Limited Light Environments
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About this book
The book starts with two sections on the detection of sensory signals over long and short ranges by aquatic animals, covering the topics of navigation, communication, and finding food and other localized sources. The next section, the co-evolution of signal and sense, deals with how animals decide whether the source is prey, predator or mate by utilizing receptors that have evolved to take full advantage of the acoustical properties of the signal. Organisms living in the deep-sea environment have also received a lot of recent attention, so the next section deals with visual adaptations to limited light environments where sunlight is replaced by bioluminescence and the visual system has undergone changes to optimize light capture and sensitivity. The last section on central co-ordination of sensory systems covers how signals are processed and filtered for use by the animal.
This book will be essential reading for all researchers and graduate students interested in sensory systems.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Shaun P. Collin
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Vision Touch and Hearing Research Centre School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
N. Justin Marshall
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sensory Processing in Aquatic Environments
Editors: Shaun P. Collin, N. Justin Marshall
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b97656
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-95527-8Published: 06 February 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-3039-2Published: 27 May 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-22628-6Published: 08 April 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 446
Number of Illustrations: 112 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurobiology, Animal Physiology, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Evolutionary Biology